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MISCELLANEOUS / Cooking quiz
« Last post by agate on February 13, 2026, 12:41:53 pm »









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A Facebook friend posted this, and I'm copying it here, with my replies, mainly just to show myself and the world, if anyone else in the world is curious, that I did all of these. It's boastful but with MS sometimes a person just has to look back on past achievements and pat him/herself on the back.


Feel free to copy and put in your own replies.


HAVE YOU EVER:
1. Made bread from scratch? Yes
2. Cooked fresh okra or squash? Yes
3. Made homemade soup? Yes
4. Fried chicken? yes but oven-friend only
5. Made spaghetti sauce from scratch? Yes
6. Made homemade rolls or cinnamon rolls? yes.
7. Baked a cake from scratch? Yes
8. Made icing from scratch? Yes
 9. Cooked a pot roast with all these veggies? Yes
10. Made chili from scratch? Yes
11. Made a meatloaf?  Yes
12. Made potato salad? Yes.
13. Made mac/cheese from scratch?  Yes.
14. Made pies from scratch? Yes.
15. Made sausage from scratch? No
16. Made fudge? No.
17. Made cookies from scratch? Yes
18. Cooked a pot of dried beans? Yes
19. Cooked a pot of greens? Yes
20. Made cornbread from scratch? yes
21. Made a pie dough from scratch?  Yes
22. Cooked a whole turkey? Yes.
23. Snapped green beans & cooked them? Yes
24. Made mashed potatoes from scratch? Yes
25. Prepared a meal for 30 plus people? No
26. Made homemade tortillas? No
27. Made pancakes from scratch? Yes
28. Roasted vegetables in the oven instead of boiling them? Yes
29. Made pasta from scratch? No
30. Made tamales from scratch? No
31. Made tuna or chicken salad? Yes,
32. Fried fish? Yes
33. Made baked beans? Yes
34. Made ice cream from scratch? No
35. Made jam or jelly?  No.
36. Zested an orange or lemon? Yes
37. Made grits from scratch? No
38. Made an omelet? Yes
39. Made homemade pizza? Yes
40. Lived in a house without a dishwasher? Yes.
41. Apple sauce from scratch? Yes
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MISCELLANEOUS / (Consumer Reports) 25 products that promote health and wellness
« Last post by agate on February 12, 2026, 09:07:58 pm »
From Consumer Reports (February 3, 2026):

25 Products That Promote Health and Wellness
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THE PRACTICAL SIDE OF BEING MULTIPLY SCLEROSED / Rethinking how electronic health records (EHRs) flag "abnormal" lab results
« Last post by agate on February 11, 2026, 08:42:16 pm »

EHRs (electronic health records) have real advantages. The patient has access to lab results, often before the doctor has time to review them, but seeing many "abnormal" flags can be disconcerting, to put it mildly, for most patients, who don't realize that there are "abnormal" results that can safely be ignored.
From MedPage Today (February 1, 2026):

Let's Rethink How EHR's Flag "Abnormal" Lab Results.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS / About ads
« Last post by agate on February 10, 2026, 09:02:55 pm »
For quite a while I paid regularly for MS Speaks to have an adfree status, but as time went on, I became aware that the supposedly month-long adfree status expired after about a week each month because the entire supply of allocated page views was already used up. Since then I haven't continued that subscription.


Lately there have been very intrusive, prominent ads appearing near the top of the screen, as well as some fairly prominent ones near the bottom. The top ads often are made to look as if they are important messages about a user's activity on this board.


They are not. They are ads.


Some administrators of Createaforum boards, of which MS Speaks is one, have been complaining about this, and I've been among them.  I can't guarantee that the situation will improve but would like to let users here know that an attempt is being made.


In the meantime, I apologize for the ads.
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MS - RESEARCH AND NEWS / (MS Journal) Baricitinib triggering a CNS inflammatory-demyelinating disease...
« Last post by agate on February 09, 2026, 09:22:24 pm »
From Multiple Sclerosis Journal (February 2, 2026)--"Baricitinib triggering a  central nervous system inflammatory-demyelinating disease: A case report":

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20552173251409943#tab-contributors

The article includes this statement:

Quote
All these findings suggest the possibility of a pre-existing silent demyelinating condition that was unmasked during baricitinib therapy

The patient developed MS-like symptoms and signs, probably as a result of taking baricitinib. The authors are suggesting a "silent demyelinating condition" that manifested itself as a result of the baricitinib. Could MS remain a "silent demyelanting condition" in other situations as well--maybe showing up only as a result of some event, such as an infection or a certain drug or maybe even extreme stress?



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MS - RESEARCH AND NEWS / (MS Society) Congress approves funding for MS Research Program...
« Last post by agate on February 07, 2026, 08:55:46 pm »
From the National MS Society (February 4, 2026)
Congress Approves Funding for MS Research Program, and More
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MS - RESEARCH AND NEWS / (Abst.) Frailty, disability, and comorbidity in MS: ...quality of life and falls
« Last post by agate on February 06, 2026, 07:14:58 am »

I am happy to see that researchers are concerning themselves with falls even though this abstract doesn't offer any helpful suggestions for preventing or dealing with falls.

From PubMed (February 6, 2026)--"Frailty, disability, and comorbidity in multiple sclerosis: Overlap and distinct associations with quality of life and falls":


https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41643562/
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MS - RESEARCH AND NEWS / (Abst.) Brain atrophy rates vary with age in RRMS
« Last post by agate on February 05, 2026, 07:19:03 am »
From PubMed (February 5, 2026)--"Brain atrophy rates vary with age in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis":


https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41638890/
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TREATMENTS / The "unwarranted hype" of stem cell therapies
« Last post by agate on February 04, 2026, 08:29:54 pm »
More words of caution here about stem-cell treatments.

From BBC Health Fix (February 4, 2026):

The "unwarranted hype" of stem cell therapies
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MS - RESEARCH AND NEWS / ACTRIMS 2026 Abstract Catalog
« Last post by agate on February 03, 2026, 08:46:02 pm »
The annual ACTRIMS conference will be in San Diego February 5-7. There is an Abstract Catalog that has been circulated in advance, though the actual abstracts may be available only after the conference or may be somewhat different from the content in the catalog.


ACTRIMS = Americas Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis.. The US and Canada are the participants.



https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21408
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